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Facebook engineer Doug Beaver shares in a W3 mailing post why Facebook
endorses SPDY. He highlights cross-browser support as well as the
ability to speed up communication between geographically distant web
servers.

Good news for navigating the indoors, Finnish engineers are using the
Earth’s magnetic field as the new satellite or cellular based GPS, which
cannot penetrate buildings very well. The application is set to have
0.1 – 2 m range of accuracy.

Canalys releases research on data center transformation with predictions
for growth in the next four years. They predict data center investments
to grow 6% by the end of the year to reach $128 billion and ultimately
reach $152 billion by 2016. While businesses in China and India are
heavily focused on expanding infrastructure, North America will still
remain the biggest infrastructure market.

Getting faster broadband out to rural America is more of a challenge
than one may think. A new solution is to use the white space on cable
providers (the channels that do not broadcast anything) to build a
network to move wireless and mobile data.

An amusing blog reflects on a personal relationship with Siri, from the
never-ending possibilities for fun and support in the beginning to
constant disappointment by the end.

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